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Think Quotes by Joyce Carol Oates
- Running! If there's any activity happier, more exhilarating, more nourishing to the imagination, I can't think of what it might be.
- Of the widow's countless death-duties there is really just one that matters: on the first anniversary of her husband's death the widow should think I…
- I am inclined to think that as I grow older I will come to be infatuated with the art of revision, and there may come…
- I don't think that writer's block exists really. I think that when you're trying to do something prematurely, it just won't come. Certain subjects just…
- She thought that this man was her savior, that he had come to her at a time in her life when her life demanded completion,…
- I used to think getting old was about vanity but actually it's about losing people you love.
- As a teacher at Princeton, I'm surrounded by people who work hard so I just make good use of my time. And I don't really…
- After my parents passed away - in 2000 and 2003 - I felt I could take the time to think about the past and imagine…
- After my husband died, I could not write much - I could not concentrate. I was too exhausted most of the time even to contemplate…
- I am not conscious of working especially hard, or of 'working' at all. Writing and teaching have always been, for me, so richly rewarding that…
- I don't think I'm morbid by nature. Serious writers have always written about serious subjects. Lighthearted material doesn't appeal to me, and I don't read…
- I think all art comes out of conflict. When I write I am always looking for the dramatic kernel of an event, the junctures of…
- I think it's very important for writers and artists generally to be witnesses to the world, and to be transparent. To let other people speak...…
- I think whenever we think of our hometowns, we tend to think of very specific people: with whom you rode on the school bus, who…
- Most people think that a widow is inhabiting some elegiac world of - it's like Mozart's 'Requiem Mass.' You know, it's very beautiful and elevated…
- 'We Were the Mulvaneys' is perhaps the novel closest to my heart. I think of it as a valentine to a passing way of American…
- The written word, obviously, is very inward, and when we're reading, we're thinking. It's a sort of spiritual, meditative activity. When we're looking at visual…
- You wake up one morning, those years are gone. There's a comfort in this fact perhaps. I want to think that there must be comfort…
- Running! If there's any activity happier, more exhilarating, more nourishing to the imagination, I can't think of what it might be. In running the mind…
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